English homophones
Davey/Davy/devi
"Davey" is a name; "devi" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Davey" arrives as a name, while "devi" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "dav" then splits - "Davey" (5 letters) vs "Davy" (4).
- No shared spelling stem: "Davey" is 5 letters, "devi" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Davy" is 4 letters, "devi" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Davey, Davy, devi: dv. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Davey
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV
Inventory adevy · private aey
Davy
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory advy · private ay
devi
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory deiv · private ei
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Davey" when you mean: A diminutive of the male given name David.
- Write "Davy" when you mean: A diminutive of the male given name David.
- Write "devi" when you mean: A goddess in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 3-spelling cluster (Davey, Davy, devi). Here's where to go from here.
- "Davey" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #18,534 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 3 spellings ranks #30 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 3-spelling cluster: dual · jewel · duel. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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